Posts Tagged: "Design"

One of the great aggravations of apartment dwellers around the world is laundry. If you’re lucky, your building has a few machines in the basement you can hope aren’t being used when you’ve actually got a minute to drag down the washing. If you’re unlucky, it’s off to the laundromat....

Flashlights are incredibly useful tools, but if you use them a lot, you know from personal experience how quickly they chew through batteries, and how many they’ll grind through on a regular basis. As a result, more and more work is going into making flashlights more reliable and easier to...

If you’re camping, hiking, or just have a recalcitrant stove, you need a reliable source of fire. A lighter would seem to fit the bill, but lighters, as campers quickly learn, aren’t built to do anything other than light a pile of charcoal or a cigarette. This is where the...

As 3D printing and desktop manufacturing become more common, 3D pens are going to be in more and more workshops and desk drawers. So why not, argues CreoPop, use the one designed to offer all the benefits, and none of the potentially agonizing burns? 3D Without Heat 3D pens are...

Mobile gaming is becoming more complex as a genre and moving away from the kind of AAA console gaming that requires a controller. Well, for the most part, anyway; some people are looking for a controller for their mobile device, and the Gamevice is built to bring it to your...

If you’re like me, you like being prepared. I go around with several tools on my keychain, mostly because while I don’t need wire strippers or a wrench every day, I need them just often enough to keep them on me. But some people want to be a little more...

If you own a computer, and a cat, and do anything on your computer, you know all too well that the keyboard is the cat’s natural enemy. The CATable tries to do something about that by making your desk a kitty-friendly space. Desk And Cat Habitrail As a desk, it’s...

Most of us will break a bone at some point in our lives. No matter how hard our bones are, we’re often willing to push them a little too far. So why not have a fashionable cast that not only looks good, but helps your bones heal? That’s the idea...

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile is essentially where designers go to show off the wildest and weirdest they’ve got. It’s been going on this past week… and some of the stuff out there is even stranger than you might think. Here are the ten strangest designs from the show. 1....

Increasingly, we’re moving towards “The Internet of Things”; objects that have wireless connectivity, long memories, and the ability to “learn” your behavior so that you get precisely what you need around the house precisely when you need it. The smart thermostat is probably the best example of this, and the...

There are plenty of solar gizmos out there, especially on Kickstarter. But Carbon is the most visually arresting of them, for a fairly simple reason; it’s not just a solar cell you can strap to your wrist; it’s also a quite nice analog watch. Solar Power For Your Phone Carbon...